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November 14, 2004

Awesome Way to Retire a Product

The guys over at Panic.com, a Mac software company, decided to retire their cool digial audio program Audion and did it with style and grace rarely seen in the software biz.

They tell the whole history of the product, including the reasons behind turning down buyout offers from AOL & Apple:

If we could do it all over again, would we change anything?

You know what? No, we don't think so. Panic is still here — almost quadrupled in size! (Okay, so that's from two people to eight as of this writing, but next stop: NASDAQ!) And while we may not be rich, we consider ourselves incredibly fortunate — we're doing what we love, making enough money to at least pay the bills, and enjoying every minute of it. Not everyone on this Earth is in such a lucky position. And while we may not have made iTunes, or the iPod, or retired to Antigua, we continue to follow our hearts, learning new things daily, and we consider ourselves seriously lucky bastards.